AUSTERE release video single & details of new album

AUSTERE have unveiled the video clip ‘Time Awry‘ as the first single taken from the black & dark metal duo‘s forthcoming new album “The Stillness of Dissolution“. The band from Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia will release their fifth full-length on June 6, 2025.

Album details of “The Stillness of Dissolution” and all currently confirmed tour dates can be viewed below.

The video “Time Awry”, which illustrates the theme of decay, is now available for immediate publication via this link:
https://youtu.be/hoDRGiAf3r0

AUSTERE comment: “The first single, ‘Time Awry’ was the second song written for ‘The Stillness of Dissolution’, our forthcoming new album”, guitarist, keyboard player, and vocalist Mitchell Keepin explains on behalf of the duo. “The first few songs written for the album tend to have a slightly more stripped back ‘rock’ sound than those written later, and that is on display here. Lyrically, it is presented from the viewpoint of a betrayed and solemn soul – a man with a heightened awareness of the inescapable running of time and seeking to accelerate that process.”

Credit
Video by D. Jenkins

Tracklist
1. Dissolved Exile
2. Time Awry
3. Redolent Foulness
4. The Downfall
5. Rusted Veins
6. Storm within My Heart

With their fifth album “The Stillness of Dissolution”, AUSTERE embark on a dark journey that leads through the abyss of time, the inevitable return of order to chaos into the black void. In the words of the poet: everything that arises is worth that it perishes.

Following on the heels of “Beneath the Threshold” (2024) that was a defining statement of the musical present and the embrace of their musical future by the Australian duo after their 13-year hiatus and the bridging album “Corrosion of Hearts” (2023). The new album brings an overall blacker feel to their sound. This slight change of course does not constitute an easy nostalgic return to the old days as AUSTERE remain within the framework of the more mature and defined version of their particular style of depressive black metal, which reflects their greater experience and evolution as artists. 

As always before, AUSTERE‘s sonic heritage remains alive on “The Stillness of Dissolution”. Their roots in early Norse black metal and its depressive Scandinavian offspring remain clearly audible. This also applies to their more recent evolution into emotive expressiveness and added blackgaze leanings. 

AUSTERE arose from a solo-project run by multi-instrumentalist and singer Desolate alias Mitchell Keepin who joined forces with drummer, keyboard player, and vocalist Sorrow aka Tim Yatras in 2005. Signature frost-bitten guitars, alongside high-pitched screams and wails marked AUSTERE‘s debut album “Withering Illusions and Desolation” (2007) as well as the two split-releases “Only the Wind Remembers / Ending the Circle of Life” (with LYRINX, 2008) and “Bleak…” (with ISOLATION, 2008), which AUSTERE reissued partly on the EP “Only the Wind Remembers” (2008). The sophomore album “To Lay like Old Ashes” followed in 2009 and still featured a raw sound but with a refined production. 

At this point in time, both musicians decided to focus on other projects and AUSTERE went into hibernation until the duo reformed in 2021. The number of followers had only grown during their absence through word of mouth. 

AUSTERE are back in black with “The Stillness of Dissolution”, yet the Australians also keep all the subtle shades of grey that turn the ongoing evolution of their music into a thrilling experience of new sonic spaces of dark matter.